The Salford Red Devils owner, who last week underlined his commitment to transform the club into Super League heavyweights by announcing 12 high-profile new signings, had been linked with a move for Latics as we exclusively revealed in June.

And in a frank interview with M.E.N. Sport he has revealed that he not only remains interested in taking over at Boundary Park - but that he has also set his sights on adding Championship One Roughyeds to his portfolio and wants to build a new stadium in Oldham for the pair.

Dr Koukash reckons he can drag the rugby club into Super League and create a St Helens-Wigan style rivalry between them and Salford.

Is it just me or does anyone else think this fella is a breath of fresh air? he is constantly in the papers, he has a high profile, bags of cash, and wants to be involved with rugby league! he should be applauded for his enthusiasm, and he may help to attract other money men into the sport.

Assuming for a moment ownership rules could be dealt with by Mrs Koukash owning a club, or by some other means, is he rich enough to fund such a venture?

Clearly he's got a few bob, but I was under the impression he was into the tens of millions rather than hundreds, clearly I'm probably wrong, but he'll need to spend or under write a fair wedge to make this a reality!

absolute breath of fresh air into the sport and i cant beleive people are knocking him and suggesting he goes elsewhere
we should be trying to attract more of the likes of him and Nahaboo instead of putting them off

seems to me that there is a lot of jealousy from the teams with no prospective backers and a fear of the "sleeping giants" finally waking up and challenging their place at the top table